ARE Professor Emeritus George Judge's 100th birthday celebration was held in the department on Friday May 2nd, 2025.
The event was an outpouring of respect, admiration and love from colleagues in RCNR and ARE, as well as from ARE alumni who joined the celebration virtually from around the world.
ARE is very pleased and excited to announce that Shifrah Aron-Dine is joining the department in Fall semester 2025! She is receiving her Phd this year from Stanford University and her research interests include macroeconomics, finance, environmental economics, and real estate. Shifrah studies questions related to environmental economics and climate change. A warm welcome Shifrah.
In the above titled article, recently published in Nature Communciations, ARE Assistant Professor Tamma Carleton's research presents an empirical approach that forecasts the effect of future adaptive energy use on global average temperature over the 21st century. It is co-authored with Alexander Abajian, Kyle Meng, and Olivier Deschênes.
The 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting will be taking place in Denver, CO, July 27- 29, 2025 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. Gordon Rausser was unanimously chosen by the AAEA committee to present the John Galbraith keynote address on Sunday, July 27th.
The Mixtape with Scott is a podcast in which professor and economist, Scott Cunningham, interviews economists, scientists, and authors about their lives and careers, as well as some of their work. Listen to the interview here.
A group of ARE graduate students and faculty set off for Bakersfield, CA on Tuesday April 23, 2025 for a 2-day field trip to gain exposure to agricultural production and processing in the Central Valley.
ARE Professor Meredith Fowlie quoted in the above titled KQED article.
This year marks an extraordinary milestone—Professor George Judge’s 100th birthday on May 2, 2025. In celebration of his incredible contributions to Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE), we are launching the George Judge ¼ Million Campaign to continue his legacy of excellence and support for graduate students.
Join us in commemorating Professor George Judge’s centennial birthday and ensuring that his legacy lives on for years to come. Make your gift today and help us reach -- or even better, surpass -- our goal!
The Annual Meeting of the multi-state research project on Impact Analyses and Decision Strategies for Agricultural Research, was hosted by ARE in Berkeley, March 28th-29th. The event was organized by Professor David Zilberman.
"Cap-and-Trade starts with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions," states ARE Professor Meredith Fowlie. Read and listen to this NPR report featuring comments from Professor Fowlie.
A San Francisco Chronicle article features comments by Professor Aaron Smith, the Gordon Rausser Distinguished Chair in Agricultural and Resource Economics.
What will this mean for U.S. consumers and the climate? Read more of Meredith Fowlie's blog here.
ARE Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension Ali Hill's 2023 analysis in ARE Update titled "California’s Overtime Law for Agricultural Workers: What Happened to Worker Hours and Pay?" is featured in the above titled article in AgAlert.
ARE Professor Jim Sallee was interviewed for this Cap Radio segment.
March 13th, 2025 is Cal's Big Give, a 24-hour campus-wide fundraising effort, and we are encouraging ARE friends and alumni throughout the world, to show support for ARE and *Give Big*.
Analysis from an EI blog post by ARE Professor Aaron Smith was featured in a recent article in Straight Arrow News.
Research by ARE faculty member Joe Shapiro and co-authors was featured in a recent article in The Guardian: "Elon Musk’s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump."
ARE is pleased to announce that Sofia Berto Villas-Boas has agreed to serve as the Chair of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, effective July 1, 2025.
Jerry passed away on August 4, 2024. The ARE community remembers Jerome (Jerry) Siebert, an Extension Specialist Emeritus and longtime colleague in the Department of Agricultural Economics at U.C. Berkeley.
In his recent article published in the ARE Update, Assistant Professor Francis Annan presents a descriptive framework that sheds light on alternative policy redesign for climate resilience, with implications for ongoing discussions around the Farm Bill.
